FIONA HEPBURN

Statement

I have always found inspiration from my Scottish heritage and natural history. 
I make work in response to found organic objects, and I am fascinated by the 
architecture of the objects I collect. My images are studies of found material, 
deconstructing and magnifying surfaces and interpreting formations and 
cyclical workings. Objects are enlarged, dissected and broken down – growing 
and metamorphosing into something else. My drawings become an obsessive 
reproduction of a single shape. Drawing repetitive forms and the cyclical 
workings of madrepoic formations, create the illusion of ruined cities and geology. 

 As a printmaker I am interested in the construction and reconstruction of prints, 
layering colours and images upon each other. With the ability to 'reproduce' 
through print, I takes on nature's obsessive role of reproducing thousands of 
tiny spores or holes, growing like mould. My prints become physical objects 
that evoke the feeling of growth and a strong sensory experience of fragility 
and tactility, provoking a desire to touch. The labour intensive, irreversible 
and destructive process is an integral part of my practice, and mimics the 
precarious, fragile state of the natural world.